Composer Jon Hering has transformed the bum notes into a full musical score.

Why? Why on earth? Well, it’s a message, you see:

Morrison said the 20-minute Bird Sheet Music, which was performed at the Tate Liverpool art gallery, represented the role birds play in the environment.

“They play a massive part in the ecosystem of the city through their droppings – they disperse seeds, also their droppings help the enrichment of the soil, so we get fertiliser,” she said.

“It’s something people don’t often think about. The whole thing about looking at detritus and waste tends to be quite negative. People think it’s mucky or horrible, but of course it’s critical to life on earth.”

And people actually sat through twenty minutes of this? It reminds me of a joke the Old Gentleman used to tell about Johnny and the magic rabbit pellets.

In case you’re wondering what Bird Sheet Music actually, you know, sounds like, you’re welcome to follow the linky over to the Beeb. Personally, I couldn’t get the recorder thingie to work on two tries and I’m not going to bother anymore.

2 comments

Bird “sheet” music, or bird…um, you fill it in. Honestly, I don’t know how people come up with these ideas. From your attempts to listen to it, it appears even the player is too disgusted to foist it on the world.